No one has seen her since Martha went up to light her fire at seven o'clock in the evening.' While Mr.Gilfil was speaking, Sir Christopher's eyes, which were eagerly turned on him, recovered some of their old keenness, and some sudden painful emotion, as at a new thought, flitted rapidly across his already agitated face, like the shadow of a dark cloud over the waves.

When the pause came, he laid his hand on Mr.Gilfil's arm, and said in a lower voice,--'Maynard, did that poor thing love Anthony ?' 'She did.' Maynard hesitated after these words, struggling between his reluctance to inflict a yet deeper wound on Sir Christopher, and his determination that no injustice should be done to Caterina.

Sir Christopher's eyes were still fixed on him in solemn inquiry, and his own sunk towards the ground, while he tried to find the words that would tell the truth least cruelly.
'You must not have any wrong thoughts about Tina,' he said at length.

'I must tell you now, for her sake, what nothing but this should ever have caused to pass my lips.

Captain Wybrow won her affections by attentions which, in his position, he was bound not to show her.